Quotes About Contentment

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Live joyfully, without desire.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

I no longer have it (desire to play).

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.